The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.